5 . When Deborah hiked cycling to Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in New York last November, she _________ a female mute swan near the water’s edge. Deborah, 30, who had worked at the Wild Bird Fund rehab (康复) center, knew that mute swans can be aggressive. But as she _________ this one, it didn’t move.

She was certain that the bird needed _________ attention. Deborah covered her jacket over the bird’s head, _________ picked it up, and cradled it in her arms. And then a thought _________ her: What should I do now?

Her best choice was the rehab center, _________ that was across the East River and clear on the other side of town. How was she going to _________ a 17-pound swan on her bike all that way? Luckily, some confused strangers driving by offered them a(n) _________ to a nearby subway station.

On the subway, no one seemed particularly disturbed by the _________ passenger. “One guy,” says Deborah, “was sitting right in front of me on his __________. I don’t know if he noticed the swan before him when talking with the person on the other end.”

Deborah called the rehab center on the way, and Tristan Higginbotham, an animal-care manager, __________ her up at the subway station and drove the bird, the bike, and the __________ to the center. There, staff members determined the swan might have lead (铅) poisoning, caused by __________ weights on fishing lines.

The staff got the swan back up on her webbed feet (蹼足). The swan even made a __________ at the center—another injured swan. __________, even with all that TLC (tender loving care), the swan had a bacterial infection. Two months __________ Deborah came to her rescue, she passed away early this January.

It’s a(n) __________ ending, but the real story is just __________ some people are willing to go to save a swan in the big city—literally. In all, Deborah traveled two hours by foot, __________, and subway (while hauling her bike). Higginbotham says, “That’s the perfect __________ of who she is.”

6 . College sets the stage for students to explore new sides of life. I myself went through this searching process and found something that has changed my _________ at college for the better：I discovered ASL—American Sign Language(美式手语).

The _________ began during my first week at college. I watched as the ASL Club _________ their translation of a song. Both the hand movements and the very _________ of communicating without speaking attracted me. What I saw was completely unlike anything I had experienced in the _________ . This newness just left me _________ more.

After that, feeling the need to _________ further, I decided to drop in on one of ASL Club’s meetings. I only learned how to _________ the alphabet(字母表)that day. Yet instead of being disappointed by my _________ progress, I was excited. I then made it a point to ____________ those meetings and learn all I could.

The following term, I ____________   an ASL class. The professor was deaf and any talking was not   ____________ . I soon realised that the silence was not unpleasant. ____________,if there had been any talking, it would have ____________ us to learn less. Now, I appreciate the silence and the ____________ way of communication it opens.

7 . I was taking a nap(小睡)when a loud noise woke me. Outside the window in a parking lot, a car had just backed up into a chain-link fence. The fence bent out in exactly the________of the car’s back end.

A short man wearing a shirt unbuttoned to ________ his chest got out of the car, with a shaven head. I disliked him ________. After a few seconds of________ the damage, the man tried to repair that. He first attempted to pull the ________ fence back into place, but it wouldn’t move. I took a drink from the glass, ________ cheering. Then he pulled against the fence’s support pole, which bent ________ and was more likely to recover. But the pole suddenly broke. I laughed out loud this time. This was ________. He went back to his car. He must be going to leave all the________ behind for someone else to tidy up.

That, I thought, would be the ________. But he reappeared a few minutes later with some tools and got to work using them. He fixed the fence, and even improved it using a support bar bought from a nearby grocery. Now it would be extra ________, stronger than before.

This man was actually a________ for me, and I was the lazy one. My ________ assumptions were all about myself. I wouldn’t fix that fence and would ________. Years later, I still look out of my window at that fence. It still looks new. And it makes me ________ what else that man has made better, and how I can make myself more like him.

I never thanked you for all you did for me. When I had you as my _________, I was in a bad place. You didn’t know why I was _________ your class, and you are confused about why an A student began to fail in every test. You were also _________that I wouldn't do my homework.

You had me come in after school for chemistry_________almost every day. You spent loads of time helping me with_________experiments and homework I hadn't done. The more I came for help, the more I began to trust you. I eventually trusted you enough to _________my problem. I told you that my grandma was diagnosed (诊断) with cancer and had three months to live. I hadn't told anyone what was going on, not_________my good friend.

The day of our second term exam, my grandma _________. That day, I entered your class and you knew_________something was wrong. After the____________, you asked me what was going on and I told you. You were____________about my loss and told me you were there if____________.

You saved me from the tides of the ocean that were____________me beneath the big blue. You are my rescue____________, and I thanked you for being there when no one else was. I have never had a teacher who gave so much to me and asked for so little in return. You are my____________and so far the greatest teacher I have ever had. Thank you.

9 . I work for a non-profit organization that serves children with disabilities. A particular ________ made me appreciate it even more.

Last Friday we took them to an amusement park. I was ________ with three girls who all had Down’s syndrome (唐氏综合征). They were having a great time, regardless of the ________ and looks from people around us.

The girls were ________ and screaming in excitement on a roller coaster ride, when a young woman patted me on the shoulder. She politely told me that she ________ the girls had Down’s syndrome. I told her yes.

I couldn’t ________ what she next said to me. She ________ me that she had just had a baby who was diagnosed (诊断) with Down’s syndrome, and that she had been most worried if her baby would be able to experience joy and live a life full of ________. She then went on to say that watching these girls made her relieved, because she saw how happy they were. Then, she ________ me for talking to her and giving her the best gift she could have asked for: ________.

I am so ________ that these three amazing girls were able to make this mother feel a sense of ________—that they gave her the hope and ________ that her baby will experience a happy life. Every time I think about his, I can’t help but ________. These kids that I am so ________ to work with and their smiling faces are major reasons why I smile.

10 . If life were a book and you were the author, how would you like the story to go? That is the question that_______ my life forever.

One day I went home from the training of snowboarding with what I though was the flu, and less than 24 hours later, I was in a _______on life support with less than two percent _______of living. It wasn’t until days later that the doctors diagnosed me with a _______blood infection. Over the course of 2.5 months, I lost the hearing in my left ear and both my legs below the knee. When my parent _______me out of the hospital, I felt like that I had been put together like a patchwork (拼缝物) doll and I had to live with_______legs. I was absolutely physically and emotionally broken, _______streaming down.

But I knew in order to move forward, I had to let go of the Old Amy and _______the New Amy. It was at this moment that I asked myself that important_______ . And that was when it struck me that I didn’t have to be five-foot-five anymore, __________ I could be as tall as I wanted. And best of all, I could make my feet the size of all the shoes. So there were __________ here.

Four months later, I was back upon a __________. and this February, I won two Snowboard World Cup gold medals, __________ me the highest ranked adaptive female snowboarder in the world. So, instead of looking at our challenges and our limitations as something __________ or bad, we can begin looking at them as a wonderful __________that can be used to help us go further than we ever know we could go.